According to Ole Miss Sports, legendary Ole Miss Baseball Head Coach and recent national championship winner Mike Bianco reached a contract agreement with the University of Mississippi on Wednesday.
No surprise, Ole Miss and Mississippi State stars are featured on the illustrious preseason watchlist. However, a Mississippi State top dog was not selected for preseason honors.
From the last team selected into the NCAA Baseball Tournament to the last team standing, the Ole Miss Rebels’ magical postseason run came to a close in Game Two of the College World Series with a 4-2 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners to claim their first National Championship.
One last day of practice on Friday before two - or, maybe three - consecutive gamedays to round out the college baseball season. What a ride it has been, and what a ride it will continue to be through the weekend, between two teams who took slightly different paths to get here.
Ole Miss has already exercised the demons of 2021 and 2019 by rolling into Omaha. But with now six appearances on the sport’s grandest stage, they feel it’s probably time they end their stay with a win.
Mississippi women’s basketball coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin has agreed to a new contract running through 2026 after leading the Rebels to their first NCAA Tournament in 15 years. The school didn’t disclose details of the deal. McPhee-McCuin led Ole Miss to its first NCAA Tournament and Associated Press ranking since 2007 in her fourth season. Ole Miss won 10 Southeastern Conference games and had its best league finish since 1993. Center Shakira Austin became the highest drafted Ole Miss player when she was selected third overall by the Washington Mystics in the April WNBA draft.
The seventh seeded Rebels have been slotted in the Wichita region and will tip off tournament play in a first-round matchup in Waco, Texas, against 10th seeded South Dakota
Ole Miss men’s basketball freshman Daeshun Ruffin will miss the remainder of the 2021-22 season after suffering a knee injury that will require surgery.
With a 6-0 road start on the line, Ole Miss fought through a tough 40 minutes against No. 23 Kentucky to come away with its second win over a ranked team
Iverson Molinar tossed in 20 points, topping the 1,000 mark for his career, and Mississippi State rolled to a 78-60 victory over Mississippi on Saturday.
Ole Miss’s men’s basketball team will host in state rival Mississippi State for the first time this season for the 265th match up between these two teams.
Ole Miss quarterback Matt Corral received the 2021 C Spire Conerly Trophy on Tuesday night, solidifying him as Mississippi’s most outstanding college football player this season.
Mississippi men’s basketball coach Kermit Davis has agreed to a new four-year contract running through 2025 just a week before his fourth season opens.
